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Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics Comments by Robert Purchese

13 August, 2007

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Perry
02/06/06 @ 13:13
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Not a looker from the screenshots, but still interested.
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02/06/06 @ 13:39
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Such a shame that it looks so bad.

The HUD and the lack of mipmapping and no lodding on characters and the lack of shadows seem to be the biggest problems.

In fact most of the interface seem bad. Please please work on it so more. The concept is good.

Turnbased, D&D for a portable machine. You can make that work.
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lambtron
02/06/06 @ 13:42
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Sweet lord someone beat this game with the ugly stick.
Blerk
02/06/06 @ 14:19
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Crunchy! Yet somehow... still interesting.
chavatar
02/06/06 @ 15:09
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Turnbased, D&D for a portable machine. You can make that work.

I'd been thinking D&D tactics would be a great game for a few years now, and was mighty pleased to hear they are doing one. I hope it doesn't suck
Razz
02/06/06 @ 15:11
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The 1990's called, they want their graphics back! :P
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Teeth
02/06/06 @ 15:32
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C'mon, it's D&D. It almost has to look bad. I think it might be in the rulebook.

15.c. All D&D games caught in the videogame's blast radius must take 6d12 automatic gfx damage points. All blue items that are not potions or gems are destroyed. Art style suffers -6 to all drawing rolls from here on in.
Kami
02/06/06 @ 15:37
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" Sweet lord someone beat this game with the ugly stick."

Actually, I think someone beat this game up with the entire ugly tree! Let me just verify that we didn't slip back in time... this is 2006 and this is on a PSP, right?
hp_on_toast
02/06/06 @ 17:09
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What the hell are you all complaining about? Dungeon Siege 2 and that other hack and slash (brotherhood / legend / blade thingy) don't look as good on the PSP and suffer from a super up close camera which has been intelligently avoided here.

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02/06/06 @ 19:14
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hp_on_toast: You should look at Killzone: Liberation. They're using topdown graphics and they're making it look good. It's not impossible, heck it's not especially hard as the PSP is quite capable.

Oh and on the matter of Art in D&D games. I've always Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment was extremely well made and good looking games. Planescape Torment is probably in the top of heck all games on art-style.
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02/06/06 @ 21:14
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All things being equal, guess we would all like a beautiful game. Difficult to tell from these enlarged screenshots. But any tactics fans won't give a monkey's if the game looks shit but plays beautifully...
Teeth
05/06/06 @ 13:49
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Ah disc, I really meant D&D brand stuff, you know... stuff with "Dungeons & Dragons" in the title. But yeah, valid point :( those games do use the ad&d rules. I'll see your Baldur's Gate and raise you Nethack, though :)
jellyhead
14/11/06 @ 12:19
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Looks like the original Neverwinter with the lighting turned off.
azmol01
14/11/06 @ 21:03
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Hopefully it will be better than LOTR tactics.
hp_on_toast
16/03/07 @ 15:07
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It looks like this title has come along very nicely aesthetically now - alot better looking than Untold Legends & DS
Thamuhacha
16/03/07 @ 15:24
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Looks better than it did. I'm interested.

I will bet any money that the loading times are horrific though :-(
dirigiblebill
16/03/07 @ 15:55
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Looks much smoother.

There's certainly no shortage of tactics RPGs for psp. With this and the rather excellent looking FFT multiplayer on the way my wallet is starting to itch...
Hughes.
16/03/07 @ 18:37
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Holy crap, they've improved that a bit, eh?

No idea if it'll play any good though.
dirigiblebill
17/03/07 @ 10:32
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Is it me or do the indoor screens look like they're running on a much better game engine?
dirigiblebill
10/05/07 @ 23:56
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I watched the Dungeons and Dragons movie last night. So wrong yet so right.

Release the fecker, bitches.

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